PstPassword

Nirsoft has another great utility you can download, called PSTPassword. PST archives employ very weak encryption. PSTPassword can identify three passwords which can open a .pst archive. Microsoft did not use a strong MD5 or SHA1 hash value, but instead employed a CRC32 algorithm which can be cracked with more than one password.

Nirsoft has posted a list of 17 passwords which will be interpreted as a CRC value in an Outlook .pst archive:

• eyzVS1

• tHPuT3

• 5J8j84

• EvIoh4

• TGcLo6

• JeX2N7

• 1Rj78C

• nr9VuE

• CNQp0J

• pLMtUP

• O0fc8Q

• NaE3OT

• ArTniW

• z7s4mm

• YUfCxp

• yZUzCu

• 5kfzQx

If the password for your .pst file is one of these, the second time you try to enter the password, Outlook won't prompt you to enter a password.

Converting Emails to PDF Portfolio

Acrobat has a plug-in for Outlook that will process multiple email messagse and their attachments into a single PDF portfolio.

In order to activate it you may need to go to File . . . Options . . . Add-ins, and click Manage COM add-ins.

A new tab will appear on the Outlook toolbar entitled, 'Adobe PDF'

You can choose to process either multiple selected emails, or multiple folders.

The multiple email messages will be saved to a single PDF portfolio. Each can be opened as a separate PDF file. Each PDF has the attachments from the original message embedded in their native format.

Outlook - Save Multiple Emails as a single text file

Don't miss out on the fact that with MS Outlook you can save multiple email messages as a single text file. In Outlook 2010 and later if you select multiple messages and then go to File . . . Save as . . . you'll be able to save them all as a single text file.